I’ve been chewing on this for a while

Teens are doing less homework and earning higher grades.

Teens’ homework time fell significantly in the pandemic era, writes Jean M. Twenge on Generation Tech. new data from 2022 and 2023 shows the average time spent on homework fell 24 percent for 10th-graders — from an hour to about 45 minutes — and 17 percent for eighth-graders.

Furthermore, the percentage of students saying they do no homework “spiked,” she writes. In 2021, 6 percent of high school sophomores did no homework. That’s up to 10.3 percent. Eleven percent of eighth-graders said they did no work at home in 2021. Now it’s 15.2 percent.

The decline started before ChatGPT was available, Twenge notes.

Now, those who have read me for a while know that my opinion of the publik skool sistim is that it should be burned to the ground, leveled, and the area where it once stood salted so that nothing will grow for a thousands years, followed by the public execution of the leadership of every single teacher’s union, starting with Randi Weingarten.

I also think that the concept of homework is absolute bullshit. I can remember the exact moment I had this realization. I was in the third grade, and I had homework assigned to me regarding multiplication, specifically multiplying by zero. What is anything times zero, dear readers?

One full page of multiplying by zero. Tell me again why kids suck at math these days? Why kids hate learning math, and thus are hobbled by their own mathematical ignorance later in life? I did not need to waste my afternoon, after sitting in the hellhole of public school for hours, spending my precious time repeating the same boring, mind-numbing crap that I sat through previously. Kim du Toit once saw a study that said kids could start from 1+1=2, and move into trigonometry within SIX MONTHS if they were taught properly. I barely got through Algebra 2 in high school. Actually, scratch that, because after I asked what a logarithm was, and how I could use it in the real world, and the response back was “shut up and just learn the process”. I essentially shut my brain down and said that I have zero fucks to give. I loved Geometry. I loved Algebra, but as I was learning both of them I was using them at home. And that was due to my father, who ensured I had a far better education outside of publik skool than I ever got inside of it.

So to get back round to the point: The reason kids are doing less homework is two-fold: One, the work they’re being assigned is absolute bullshit. When my father was in high school the were taught Latin, Greek and Calculus. Nowadays, they’re teaching Algebra 1 and remedial English IN COLLEGE. Kids today can blast through the garbage that the publik skool sistim gives them and then rightly go have fun, or work, or spend their time far more productively after school.

Two: After the plandemic shutdown for the Kung Flu, the kids who had been in school but were then kept home saw just how worthless and pathetic the publik skool sistim is, and they’re not buying in. Classes obviously weren’t all that important for politics sake, so why should these kids suddenly by in again after they’ve been shown by the schools themselves that the classes are essentially worthless, little more than government babysitting camps?

Anyways, here’s to hoping that Trump keeps his promise to destroy the Department of Education. It’s done nothing of any real good since it’s inception, and it deserves to be destroyed. Return education back to the states where it should have been. Get the federal government out of the kid’s way, and I’m pretty damn sure the kids will be alright.